Authors: B. Morgenstern, S. Abdeddaim
DIALIGN is a software program for multiple sequence alignment
developed by Burkhard
Morgensternet al..

While standard alignment methods rely
on comparing single residues and imposing gap
penalties, DIALIGN constructs pairwise and multiple alignments by comparing
entire segments of the sequences. No gap penalty is used. This approach
can be used for both global and local alignment, but it is particularly successful in
situations where sequences share only local homologies.